I guess your experience is explainable. If you want to install a DE manually, you must disable the DE choice in the installer and XFCE which is the default. Then you are not getting asked which DM to install, and that DM will not pull the default DE as dependency as it happened to you. I do all my installs nowadays by just using the netinstall and to install just the basic system utilities. Then I manually install xorg, lightdm and mate or cinnamon w/o install-recommends and build the system as I like it. 

The second problem appears when you skip loading some basic options during expert install. Then you are not getting the advanced file systems, just the very basic ones.

Got Arch, Beowulf and Chimaera working independently from each other, all encrypted. Boundary conditions: modern X570 MB configured to UEFI only, NVME gpt partitioned. Arch w/o separate /boot, Beowulf and Chimaera with separate individual /boot partitions. Per default Chimaera is booted, if I want Beowulf or Arch I need to use the F8 key on my MB to select the OS to be started.

To which package does "la" belong? My bash (Chimaera from net-install) tells me command not found.

Just my 2 cents: I have approved the usrmerge option when being asked on all new installations that asked that question. I cannot see any reason to not agree. And I haven't seen any problems due to usrmerge in my small home network.

I have some SW in /opt, like FF, LO, TB, tor. All installed from external sources like tarballs from Mozilla, or the deb for a fresher LO version directly downloaded.

You should use deb.devuan.org/merged, see https://www.devuan.org/os/packages

Does its job for me.

Don't mix up kernels (linux-image) with kernel headers (linux-headers).

You should not consider mixing distros.

My suggestion is to consider upgrading to Chimaera.

rolfie

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/16/ … nies_data/

The first thing that comes to my mind is the bios battery. Maybe that is borderline?

BTW: package-update-indicator installation does not mean you immediately get a notification when an upgrade is available, there is some process in that background that needs to update the package info from the server. This is handled by package kit.

But its working, in my eyes fast and accurate enough.

Though I use a root console and apt to install updates.

Have a look at this thread: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=4919 if you want to install the Arch way.

Or do you just want to install a basic system without graphical interface? That can be done with every installer. When you are asked what to install just select basic system utilities, and you end up with a system that just can be operated via cli.

Have a look at: https://superuser.com/questions/760327/ … ed#1407054

Make sure the cd drive in the Devuan machine is empty. Then reboot. Then insert the guest additions from the Device -> Insert GuestAdditions CD Image

I think you need to be a bit more specific.
* What is the host system?
* Where did you get VBox from? Version?
* Extension pack installed?
* On Linux host: kernel modules built?
To install guest additions on a Debian based Linux guest:
* Insert guest addition iso in guest via menu.
* Get root privilegues with su -
* # mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0
* # cd /media/cdrom0
* # sh ./LinuxGuestAdditons.run

In the properties of your guest enable drag'n'drop and clipboard both ways. These settings sometimes require a few boots to work.

rolfie

Edith: corrected the sh command to run the guest additions